Diadem comments on Meta post: Did something go wrong? - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Elo 31 August 2015 10:58PM

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Comment author: Diadem 01 September 2015 09:11:21AM 7 points [-]

O wow.

I've been following Lesswrong for months now, and only because of this post did I found out that there's more posts hidden under 'main' than just the promoted ones. So Thanks Elo!

I now wonder if there are any other hidden site features I don't know about.

I have to say this is not very good design. Why would you hide posts in such a non-obvious way. It's also rather inconsistent. The discussion page opens an overview page of newest posts, while the main page shows only a subset of newest posts, and shows the full content instead of an overview. There is apparently a way to get both main and discussion on a single page (see the links Vaniver and ike posted), but then for some reason the overview page is formatted completely differently.

Comment author: drethelin 01 September 2015 09:28:25PM 3 points [-]

useful feature: the little envelope below comments and posts allows you to follow a post and receive future comments on it in your inbox

Comment author: entirelyuseless 01 September 2015 01:08:14PM 1 point [-]

I agree that this is not a good design, and even when you use the link which gives both main and discussion, I dislike the format compared with the normal discussion page.

I now read all articles (from both main and discussion) using an rss feed, but it would be better if there were a link at the top to "all posts", formatted in the style of the discussion page.